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I have previously described the process of minimal Xubuntu Desktop installation with versions 13.04 and 13.10. Now it's time to in...

I have performed a clean install of the newest Xubuntu distribution and I like the result. They have reacted to the bug reports I poste...

One new feature planned for the Xubuntu 13.10 release is the multi-monitor support integrated into XFCE desktop. Previously one would hav...

I have previously compared performance of the three most popular interpreted languages - Perl, Python and Lua ( part1 , part2 ). The next ...

Sometimes I want to redirect bash output directly into an X application for further editing. Normally this is done using a temporary file ...

As far as people show interest in this topic I decided to perform an additional measurement to the one I performed in Part 1 . This time...

I've played recently with the OpenGL Core Profile and QGLWidget to see if I can render a scene with only core profile functions and...

By default pm-utils changes power control parameters only for a subset of device classes. The classes id's are hardcoded into the /...

I have written the base64 encoding algorithm in Perl, Python and Lua to compare the performance in basic arithmetic and file-io operation...

I've been using ssmtp for a long time to send automatic notifications from all my embedded systems like routers or NASes and also to...